Yangju City Promotes Mass Vaccination to Prevent Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Lumpy Skin Disease in Cattle and Goats. Gyeonggi Yangju City (Mayor Kang Su-hyun) announced on the 2nd that it will conduct mass vaccination of foot-and-mouth disease and Lumpy Skin disease preventive vaccines on 19,542 heads of cattle, goats, and other livestock raised in 344 farms within the city by the 31st.
This vaccination campaign aims to prevent the omission of animals requiring vaccination on farms raising livestock susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease and Lumpy Skin disease, improve herd immunity through mass vaccination, and preemptively block the infection of foot-and-mouth disease and Lumpy Skin disease viruses that could enter farms.
Foot-and-mouth disease vaccines will be provided free of charge to small-scale farms raising fewer than 50 cattle or fewer than 1,000 pigs, as well as goat farms. Commercial-scale farms will receive a 50% subsidy on vaccine purchase costs.
Lumpy Skin disease vaccines will be fully funded by the government.
In particular, to prevent missed vaccinations, cattle will be vaccinated by public veterinarians commissioned by the city, and goats will be vaccinated by the Yangju Livestock Cooperative and capture teams through complete coverage.
Pigs can be vaccinated on the farm according to the existing foot-and-mouth disease vaccination schedule.
After mass vaccination, related institutions such as the Animal Hygiene Testing Laboratory will conduct serological tests for foot-and-mouth disease to verify vaccination compliance. If the antibody positivity rates fall below the standards (cattle 80%, goats 60%, breeding pigs 60%, fattening pigs 30%), fines of up to 10 million KRW will be imposed.
A city official stated, “As Lumpy Skin disease continues to occur domestically this year, we urge livestock farmers to participate actively with vigilance to ensure no animals miss vaccination and thorough vaccine administration is carried out.”
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